diff --git a/olmocr/bench/README.md b/olmocr/bench/README.md
index 3c90a03b..9505cf8c 100644
--- a/olmocr/bench/README.md
+++ b/olmocr/bench/README.md
@@ -96,6 +96,18 @@ to run it against your own OCR tools. Your tool just needs to support Markdown o
       <td align="center">99.3</td>
       <td align="center">64.5 ± 1.1</td>
     </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td align="left">Dots OCR</td>
+      <td align="center">65.2</td>
+      <td align="center">69.7</td>
+      <td align="center"><strong>84.8</strong></td>
+      <td align="center">38.6</td>
+      <td align="center">79.5</td>
+      <td align="center">72.9</td>
+      <td align="center">46.2</td>
+      <td align="center">97.8</td>
+      <td align="center">69.3 ± 1.1</td>
+    </tr>
     <tr>
       <td align="left">GPT-4o (No Anchor)</td>
       <td align="center">51.5</td>
diff --git a/olmocr/bench/convert.py b/olmocr/bench/convert.py
index af2d8f16..5a91531d 100644
--- a/olmocr/bench/convert.py
+++ b/olmocr/bench/convert.py
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ async def process_with_semaphore(task):
         "docling": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_docling", "run_docling"),
         "rolmocr": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_rolmocr", "run_rolmocr"),
         "paddlepaddle": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_paddlepaddle", "run_paddlepaddle"),
+        "dotsocr": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_dotsocr", "run_dotsocr"),
         "transformers": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_transformers", "run_transformers"),
         "server": ("olmocr.bench.runners.run_server", "run_server"),
     }
diff --git a/olmocr/bench/runners/run_dotsocr.py b/olmocr/bench/runners/run_dotsocr.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..24764a54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/olmocr/bench/runners/run_dotsocr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import base64
+from io import BytesIO
+
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor
+
+from olmocr.data.renderpdf import render_pdf_to_base64png
+
+_model = None
+_processor = None
+
+
+def load_model(model_name: str = "./weights/DotsOCR"):
+    """
+    Load the DotsOCR model and processor if they haven't been loaded already.
+
+    Args:
+        model_name: Hugging Face model name for DotsOCR
+
+    Returns:
+        model: The DotsOCR model loaded on the appropriate device.
+        processor: The corresponding processor.
+    """
+    global _model, _processor
+    if _model is None or _processor is None:
+        _model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            model_name, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto", attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", low_cpu_mem_usage=True, trust_remote_code=True
+        )
+        _processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
+    return _model, _processor
+
+
+def run_dotsocr(pdf_path: str, page_num: int = 1, model_name: str = "./weights/DotsOCR", target_longest_image_dim: int = 1024) -> str:
+    """
+    Convert page of a PDF file to structured layout information using DotsOCR.
+
+    This function renders the specified page of the PDF to an image, runs DotsOCR on that image,
+    and returns the structured layout information as JSON.
+
+    Args:
+        pdf_path (str): The local path to the PDF file.
+        page_num (int): The page number to process (default: 1).
+        model_name (str): Hugging Face model name (default: "./weights/DotsOCR").
+        target_longest_image_dim (int): Target dimension for the longest side of the image (default: 1024).
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The structured layout information in JSON format.
+    """
+    # Ensure the model is loaded (cached across calls)
+    model, processor = load_model(model_name)
+
+    # Convert the specified page of the PDF to a base64-encoded PNG image.
+    image_base64 = render_pdf_to_base64png(pdf_path, page_num=page_num, target_longest_image_dim=target_longest_image_dim)
+
+    # Create PIL Image from base64
+    image = Image.open(BytesIO(base64.b64decode(image_base64)))
+
+    # Define the prompt for layout extraction
+    prompt = """Extract the text content from this image."""
+
+    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "image", "image": image}, {"type": "text", "text": prompt}]}]
+
+    # Preparation for inference
+    text = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
+
+    image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)
+    inputs = processor(
+        text=[text],
+        images=image_inputs,
+        videos=video_inputs,
+        padding=True,
+        return_tensors="pt",
+    )
+
+    inputs = inputs.to("cuda")
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=4096)
+
+    generated_ids_trimmed = [out_ids[len(in_ids) :] for in_ids, out_ids in zip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)]
+
+    output_text = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False)
+
+    del inputs
+    del generated_ids
+    del generated_ids_trimmed
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+    return output_text[0] if output_text else ""